A1 Did You Ever Sing To A Mountain
A2 Mountain Man
A3 Seasons
A4 Once I Left The Mountain
A5 San Francisco Mountain
A6 Tree
B1 Don't Go To Baja With Your Beer Cans
B2 Power
B3 Progress
B4 Crossroads
B5 The Drifter
B6 Fence Line Rider
B7 Chico
A2 Mountain Man
A3 Seasons
A4 Once I Left The Mountain
A5 San Francisco Mountain
A6 Tree
B1 Don't Go To Baja With Your Beer Cans
B2 Power
B3 Progress
B4 Crossroads
B5 The Drifter
B6 Fence Line Rider
B7 Chico
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MusicTranscript
00:00Did you ever sing to a mountain, did you ever reach for the sky?
00:25Have you seen Columbine and Primrose, have you been there to hear the wind sigh?
00:36Her summit is barren and windswept, few trees are able to live
00:41When you see them all gnarled and twisted, a certain respect you must give
00:52Did you ever sing to a mountain, did you ever reach for the sky?
00:58Have you seen Columbine and Primrose, have you been there to hear the wind sigh?
01:09Below, away from the summit, spruce fir and pine grow tall
01:15Patches of trembling aspen, where fire once happened to fall
01:25Did you ever sing to a mountain, did you ever reach for the sky?
01:31Have you seen Columbine and Primrose, have you been there to hear the wind sigh?
01:41They say she was once a volcano, billions of years ago
01:47Now she stands there ever so proudly, through seasons of wind, rain and snow
01:57Did you ever sing to a mountain, did you ever reach for the sky?
02:03Have you seen Columbine and Primrose, have you been there to hear the wind sigh?
02:13I have sung to the mountain, and I have reached for the sky
02:36I feel her magnificent beauty, I have been there and heard the wind sigh
02:46Did you ever sing to a mountain, did you ever reach for the sky?
02:52Have you seen Columbine and Primrose, have you been there to hear the wind sigh?
03:02Did you ever sing to a mountain, did you ever reach for the sky?
03:08Have you seen Columbine and Primrose, have you been there to hear the wind sigh?
03:32Mountain man, mountain man, that's what I am and that's what I'll always be
03:54I pitch my camp where I care, live with the deer, the elk and bear
04:01The sky is my roof, the trees are my friends, and I hear what the wind has to say
04:12I care not if it rains, for I feel the sun, the clouds have gone away
04:26Mountain man, mountain man, that's what I am and that's what I'll always be
04:40I know the beauty of all the flowers that grow in their time
04:47I know each rock, and I know each spring, and I know just where to climb
04:58Cause I'm a mountain man, mountain man, that's what I am and that's what I'll always be
05:13Yes I know the mountain, but she is always new
05:20Another flower, a bird or a tree, or just a morning dew
05:27The mountain shows her power, and she gets into my mind
05:34But nothing else compares to the solace that I find
05:41Cause I'm a mountain man, mountain man, that's what I am and that's what I'll always be
05:56Mountain man, mountain man, that's what I am and that's what I'll always be
06:26Seasons on the mountain, those seasons fulfill my dreams
06:47White tresses fall down her shoulders, avalanches plunge, snow is blowing green in the sky
07:00Seasons on the mountain, those seasons fulfill my dreams
07:16Snow melt fills her springs, her ground warms and thaws, bright green appears once again
07:28Seasons
07:35Rains wash away the dust, growth is lush, flowers bloom, life is full begun and due
07:50Seasons on the mountain, those seasons fulfill my dreams
08:05Aspen flaming yellow, the flowers they vanish, the grass is dry, the mountain begins to sleep
08:18Seasons on the mountain, those seasons fulfill my dreams
08:49Once I left the mountain and wandered to the sea
09:03And all the while I felt that I wasn't really me
09:11I saw the gulls and sandbirds and looked out o'er the waves
09:18And at the rugged coastline with its rocks and sand and caves
09:26But there was something missing as I sat beside the sea
09:33The waves came churning in a message back to me
09:41They told me that the mountain is where I really belong
09:48And that I must return was the message of their song
09:56I returned to the mountain, I was happy, I was me
10:03Yet as I sit here on my mountain I'm glad I saw the sea
10:34Mountain, San Francisco mountain, she's a lady and she's high
10:46Mountain, San Francisco mountain, I'll love her till I die
11:00She was born of white hot lava that was heaped upon the ground
11:08And through the years her trees began to grow
11:14From atop a rocky summit to the valley far below
11:21Everything was niched into its place
11:28Mountain, San Francisco mountain, she's a lady and she's high
11:40Mountain, San Francisco mountain, I'll love her till I die
11:57To Indians she's sacred, a home to Hopi gods
12:03A boundary to the Navajo of their world upon the earth
12:09And there are white men also who find solace on her slopes
12:18Mountain, San Francisco mountain, she's a lady and she's high
12:30Mountain, San Francisco mountain, I'll love her till I die
12:44But her beauty's a temptation to star and desecrate
12:52And some do not revere her with respect
12:57They would build their condominiums on the prairies of her slopes
13:05Just to put some coin in their hand
13:12Chainsaws rip through hearts and monsters churn the dust
13:18Just to put more coin in their hands
13:25Mountain, San Francisco mountain, she's a lady and she's high
13:39Mountain, San Francisco mountain, I'll love her till I die
13:55But there are those who love her with passion without end
14:02Who will fight to save her beauty for everyone to feel
14:08When all of Arizona has scars upon its land, the peace will still remain
14:21Mountain, San Francisco mountain, she's a lady and she's high
14:34Mountain, San Francisco mountain, I'll love her till I die
14:48Will love her till we die
15:01It was a day for wandering and I came upon a tree
15:20I'd seem to be struggling, fighting to be free
15:28The tree is on the mountain high near Timberline
15:35Where winter winds try conquering the ancient bristlecone pine
15:42The tree is craggy and twisted and has the look of being old
15:49Its bark has stood the stress of drought and icy cold
15:56As I wandered on the mountain and came upon my tree
16:03I felt something happening deep inside of me
16:10I embraced its trunk as its beauty drew near
16:17Its strength ran through my body and from then I've known no fear
16:24The tree has scars of thoughtlessness where someone carved their name
16:31Showing disrespect for nature that will never bring him fame
16:38Why is man so tempted to carve his name upon a tree?
16:46As proof he has no feeling for all the world to see
16:53Whenever I'm on the mountain and climbing way up high
17:00I always look over and see my tree against the sky
17:15Don't go to Baja with your beer cans
17:23Don't build hotels out on the shore
17:28Don't drive the grey whales from their homes
17:34Don't go to Baja with your beer cans
17:41Don't drive the grey whales from their homes
17:46For there won't be a Baja anymore
17:51There won't be a Baja anymore
17:56I knew the Baja before the highway came to be
18:01I have wandered through the Fujian, I have walked out by the sea
18:06I have walked out by the sea
18:09But now they've built a highway and the gringos will invade
18:14The last of all the wild lands and I am too afraid
18:19And I am too afraid
18:22Don't go to Baja with your beer cans
18:27Don't build hotels out on the shore
18:32Don't drive the grey whales from their homes
18:36For there won't be a Baja anymore
18:41There won't be a Baja anymore
18:46Just what is called prosperity means messing up the land
18:51With things that ruin beauty
18:53So men can't play in sand
18:56So men can't play in sand
18:59The beauty of the Baja is wild and it is free
19:03And it's a shame to ruin it because the highway came to be
19:08Because the highway came to be
19:11Don't go to Baja with your beer cans
19:16Don't build hotels out on the shore
19:21Don't drive the grey whales from their homes
19:25For there won't be a Baja anymore
19:30There won't be a Baja anymore
19:35I'd like to save the Baja but I see it going fast
19:41And all her rugged beauty will be a thing way in the past
19:45Will be a thing way in the past
19:48They'll bulldoze over Fujian trees, they'll dirty up the sand
19:53She'll lose her personality, it'll be a different land
19:58It'll be a different land
20:01Don't go to Baja with your beer cans
20:06Don't build hotels out on the shore
20:11Don't drive the grey whales from their homes
20:16For there won't be a Baja anymore
20:21For there won't be a Baja anymore
20:26Adios!
20:45They say that L.A. needs power to light their night
20:51So they're polluting Arizona, so L.A.'ll have more light
20:59Black Mesa and Four Corners is the rip-off of our age
21:06And they will end up killing off the trees and grass and street
21:15Power, more power to have with our skies
21:22Power, more power to have with our lives
21:31Though they don't feel a damn about Mother Nature's love
21:39They justify the rape of land and the pollution of our skies
21:49By all the dollars they will make as the soot fills up our eyes
21:57They advertise all electric homes and keep your lights on bright
22:05So they can sell more power through the day and through the night
22:13Power, more power to have with our skies
22:20Power, more power to have with our lives
22:29Though they don't feel a damn about Mother Nature's love
22:41They came to Four Corners to belch out all their smoke
22:49California, now Arizona can be seen show
22:57There was a time when Manhattan was bought for shells and bees
23:04Now they've taken Black Mesa from the Indian for white man's greed
23:12All in the name of progress, but do they really know
23:19That progress isn't polluting skies or choking the river's flow
23:27It's time to stop the disrespect of nature in our land
23:33To stop thinking just in dollars, it's getting out of hand
23:41Power, more power to have with our skies
23:48Power, more power to have with our lives
23:57Though they don't feel a damn about Mother Nature's love
24:04Though they don't feel a damn about our love
24:35I was the first to build a townhouse on the San Francisco Beats
24:51The foundation, it is cracking, and the roof, it really leaks
24:56The mortgage is a rip-off, they're charging 20%
25:02The windows are all broken, and the rafters are all bent
25:07If you drive up to my townhouse in the middle of the night
25:12We can have a drink by candle, cause there isn't any light
25:17They said that this was progress, and they threw their money around
25:22But what they didn't listen to is that this is sacred ground
25:27So I sit here in my townhouse in wonder at its fate
25:32I think I'd better move away before it is too late
25:37Yeah, I was the first to build a townhouse on the San Francisco Beats
25:42I think I'd better move away before it is too late
25:57I have seen you on the mountain, red boots on rocks and through prairie grass
26:07But I can see you by the ocean, golden hair streaming in the sea breeze
26:12I have felt your closeness sitting by a fire, but I can feel your softness anywhere
26:18I have looked into your gentle eyes and seen your thoughts
26:22I have listened to your voice and heard how much you love
26:26And I have kissed your lips
26:29You search as I search, we search for ourselves
26:34And wonder if we can find ourselves in others
26:37Is it so that we must walk alone to scream and cry and laugh to the wind?
26:42Or is there a friend along the way who shares, who shares her eyes, her heart, her touch, her love?
26:50Yes, we must walk our ways alone in part
26:53But for me, the way is not a lonely way again
26:56Because you are part of me, and I am part of you
27:00As I sit in the middle of the mountain, alone, but not lonely
27:05I know I shall always love you
27:24The long-haired youth walked down the road, picking his guitar
27:32Softly singing his song of love and reaching for a star
27:38His pants were patched, his shoes were worn
27:42And if you listened, you could tell that he was glad that he'd been born
27:51He had no destination, a drifter some would say
27:57But as he walked and sang his songs, he was enjoying each new day
28:04At times he'd meet with others and camp beneath a tree
28:10And they would smoke and sit awhile and talk of being free
28:18He'd seen a lot of country and met a lot of friends
28:25And found a lot of peace of mind down where the river bends
28:31At times he'd meet with hassles as he walked his way through towns
28:38The badgers didn't trust the long-haired youth, but he would smile at their frowns
28:47But it made him sad to think of those of jealous heart and mind
28:54Who feared a long-haired youth whose heart was true and kind
29:00As he walked along and sang his songs and looked at trees and sky
29:06He'd meet a girl, a drifter too, and they would laugh and cry
29:17. . .
29:40They understood each other and felt the same on days
29:47They looked at life as beautiful through summers, falls and springs
29:53The long-haired youth walked down the road to where the river bends
29:59The girl she waved as he walked on, glad that they'd been friends
30:10. . .
30:25I'm a fence line rider for the old bar jay
30:29For a hundred a month, well, I ride all day
30:32Checkin' for holes in the miles of wire
30:35But punchin' cows is my real, my real desire
30:42Yippee-aye-oh, yippee-aye-ay
30:49I'm a fence line rider for the old, the old bar jay
30:55I'd rather be out there open a cow
30:59But I come from the city and I don't know how
31:03During the roundup, I'll ride with the rest
31:06To see how it's done out here, here in the west
31:13So I keep ridin' fence near every day
31:17Till I can punch cows for the old bar jay
31:20Stretchin' wire and settin' posts
31:23But it ain't what I'd rather be doin', doin' the most
31:31Yippee-aye-oh, yippee-aye-ay
31:38I'm a fence line rider for the old, the old bar jay
31:44With a shovel and a bar and a jackass too
31:48They gave me a horse that they call Old Blue
31:51I saddle up before it's light
31:54Stretch the wire till it's good, good and tight
32:02I like my job cause it means someday
32:05I'll be punchin' cows for the old bar jay
32:08All week long I stretch it tight
32:11But I go to town on Saturday, Saturday night
32:19Yippee-aye-oh, yippee-aye-ay
32:26I'm a fence line rider for the old, the old bar jay
32:32I drink my beer at the bay horse saloon
32:35Then back to the ranch by the light of the moon
32:39I tell all the girls I'm a cowboy troop
32:42I take them outside and I show, show them Old Blue
32:49If the girls know different, well they never say
32:53And they call me the puncher from the old bar jay
32:56They get my paycheck on every payday
32:59From this fence line rider from the old, the old bar jay
33:07Yippee-aye-oh, yippee-aye-ay
33:13I'm a fence line rider for the old, the old bar jay
33:19Yippee-aye-oh, yippee-aye-ay
33:26I'm a fence line rider for the old, the old bar jay
33:37I'm a fence line rider for the old, the old bar jay
33:59Chico was a cowboy
34:03The only trade he knew
34:07He rode into my camp one day
34:12And from then our friendship grew
34:16His home was down in Mexico
34:20Where the real Yaqui flows
34:24But he crossed the line when he was just eighteen
34:29With a saddle in his clothes
34:33He was the toughest of the mountain hands
34:37Tied the wild ones down
34:42And he'd ride for months in the mountains
34:47Never seein' town
34:51One day he found an old black steer hidin' in a draw
34:58With one horn up and one horn down
35:04He threw rawhide before he saw
35:07The look the old steer had in his eye
35:12A look he'd seen before
35:16In the eye of a brindled bull one day
35:21So he knew what was in store
35:24The rawhide sung and found its mark
35:29Around the black steer's horn
35:33And all hell broke loose
35:37The black steer charged
35:40Through the cactus trees and thorn
35:45The steer kept comin' straight at his horse and hit him in the chest
35:49The upturned horn ripped through his hide
35:53And tore into his flesh
36:00The horse went down and Chico fell
36:04As the old black steer turned back
36:08To take another run at him
36:13And he heard his backbone crack
36:16And he heard his backbone crack
36:20The horse got up with his steer
36:24And both ran far away
36:29And they found Chico with his back broke
36:33In the mornin' the next day
36:38Chico healed and soon got back to tying the wild ones down
36:47Until there were no more wild ones left
36:51So he wandered back to town
36:55The day he rode into my camp
36:59He turned eighty the month before
37:03And through the blur of time
37:07He remembered the wild ones once more
37:12He'd ride with me rememberin'
37:17The times he'd tie the wild ones down
37:21And he told me of the old black steer
37:26And the times he had in town
37:30He rode with me for near two years
37:34Ridin' herd on three hundred head
37:38Then one mornin' as we saddled up
37:42I looked over and he was dead
37:47The day he died was sad for me
37:51I said goodbye to my best friend
37:55The little man from Mexico
38:00Who threw his life to the end
38:07Thank you for watching!